Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

Progress isnt made by early risers. Its made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. Its as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not even know that hes doing it. As writers wives and husbands often learn to their horror......there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites...

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Heres to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

But, do you know, once you get used to its rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

Heinleins Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must WriteRule Two: Finish What Your StartRule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial OrderRule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the MarketRule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers.

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.